On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.
Ernest Mandel
If the workers do not fight for higher wages, if they do not fight for a shorter workday, if they do not fight for, let us say it in a provocative way, day-to-day economic issues, they become demoralized slaves.
fight issues
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
necessity luxury capitalism democracy socialism essential absolute
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
organization organizations people self call popular
There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.
organization organizations class interests
organization organizations history conscious class working
I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
self parties
After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.
history social
Worthy of their human nature.
nature human worthy
Revolution is not a goal in itself.
revolution goal
You cannot have a spontaneous socialist revolution.
revolution
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.
life
Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.
truth
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.
labor power
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
thetimes time
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.
revolution experience
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